Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When applicable , Taylor 's hypothesis ( Section 19.4 ) can be used to derive a spatial spectrum from an observed time spectrum . |
| 2 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 3 | Burying a much loved pet at home can provide great emotional support at a distressing time , but it can also present practical problems |
| 4 | This may indicate that user interfaces to query structures can not yet replicate human processes of spatial reasoning in a reasonable time , or that in software terms it is inefficient to extend SQL , and that an alternative must be found . |
| 5 | Despite French apprehension , West Germany also became a member of N.A.T.O. , in 1954 , on the understanding that both British and U.S.A. forces would remain on the European continent for an unlimited time . |
| 6 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) It is for the person who owed any duty under subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) if he gave consent and the question arises whether he gave it within a reasonable time , to show that he did , ( b ) if he gave consent subject to any condition and the question arises whether the condition was a reasonable condition , to show that it was , ( c ) if he did not give consent and the question arises whether it was reasonable for him not to do so , to show that it was reasonable , and , if the question arises whether he served notice under that subsection within a reasonable time , to show that he did . |
| 8 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 9 | When the anxiety upper limit is reached it will remain at this level for a certain time . |
| 10 | It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi . |
| 11 | I think this is a good principle and we hope to continue it , to some degree for a long time yet . ’ |
| 12 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 13 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 14 | me proper meeting for a long time . |
| 15 | done this job for a long time wo n't you ? |
| 16 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |
| 17 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 18 | Look wh you 're in this business for a long time , things take an awful long time to happen in this world |
| 19 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 20 | A may not terminate the contract on the ground that B has committed a breach by not opening a confirmed credit — but he may insist that B opens a confirmed credit within a reasonable time and , if B does not do so , he will then be in breach of contract . |
| 21 | These are all , in effect , tests of manners , not morals , since propriety is a measure of the appropriateness of public behaviour to a particular time or place . |
| 22 | ( The first ‘ buses also provided this service for a short time . ) |
| 23 | Charles Henstock sat beside his old friend for a short time , his lips moving in prayer . |
| 24 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 25 | Larger fish will , however , put up with a freshwater environment for a short time . |
| 26 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 27 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |
| 28 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 29 | But when talking to a different audience at a different time , the Labour party poses as the green party , committing itself to the tough and demanding target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | For Alton , Mike Lake found some improved form after a long time out with injury , to come 899th in 50 mins , 05 secs . |